Canadian Journal of Disability Studies Published by the Canadian Disability Studies Association Association Canadienne des Études sur l’Incapacité Hosted by The University of Waterloo www.cjds.uwaterloo.ca This document has been made accessible and PDF/UA compliant by Accessibil-IT Inc. For more information go to http://www.accessibilit.com Giancarlo et al., “Intersecting Oppressions” CJDS 5.2 (June 2016) Intersecting Oppressions: African Nova Scotians with Disabilities and Possibilities Arising from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Alexandra Giancarlo, PhD candidate Department of Geography, Queen’s University
[email protected] David Shannon Audrey Kobayashi Abstract Incorporating a social and critical model of disability with an eye to the important intersections of race, gender, income, and disability, we use the existing literature both on disability and on chronic disease1 and health within the African Nova Scotian community to argue that a human rights-based approach to disability, exemplified by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), provides the most promise for improving the lives of black Nova Scotians with disabilities. Keywords Disability; Chronic disease; Nova Scotia; Human-rights; Race; African; CRPD 1 “Chronic disease/conditions” are broadly defined in the literature as a continuous or persistent condition that can be communicable or non-communicable, can be physical or mental, and is not easily resolved (Hayward and Colman 2003,